For the past four years, Global Media News has brought readers news stories, in-depth articles and commentaries about global media corporations like AOL Time Warner and The Walt Disney Company and the problems they face.  This book brings together 32 of these articles.  Policy makers, citizens and students in mass media college courses will find this book useful.

Global Media News Reader

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Marquette Books

For the past four years, Global Media News has brought readers news stories, in-depth articles and commentaries about global media corporations like AOL Time Warner and The Walt Disney Company and the problems they face. This book brings together 32 of these articles. Policy makers, citizens and students in mass media college courses will find this book useful.

Politics & Government

Many scholars and citizens argue that global mass media are institutions that help political and economic elites around the world achieve their goals, often to the detriment of the less powerful and nonmainstream groups. This book of essays supports that propostiion but also shows that local mass media perform the same function for the communities they serve. All mainstream mass media perform a social control function for the communities or nations they serve.

The Media Essays: From Local to Global

David Demers

Humor & Entertainment

When Melvin DeFleur and Margaret DeFleur, both professors of mass communication at Boston University, asked their foreign graduate students to conduct surveys of some 1,300 teenagers in their 12 home countries, they found that teenagers around the world believe that Americans are extremely violent and criminally inclined, and that American women are sexually immoral. They present the results of the survey, and place the blame for these negative attitudes on US mass media, especially Hollywood. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Learning to Hate Americans: How U.S. Media Shape Negative Attitudes Among Teenagers in Twelve Countries

Melvin L. DeFleur

Margaret H. Defleur

Professor David Demers had a good job and a good life. So why would the divorced man who had never changed a diaper adopt a Chinese baby girl on his own? China Girl answers this question and then tells the adoption story, including the trip to China and life afterward. 
China Girl is funny, heartwarming and suspenseful. Will this balding middle-aged man learn to care for and bond with Lee Ann, who is struggling to overcome some physical and health problems? Can he love her as much as a mother loves her child?

China Girl: One Man's Adoption Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Demers, David

Community & Culture

Global Media Go to War is the world's most comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the role of mass media during the 2003 Iraq War. Its 43 essays, which are written by prominent media scholars and professionals from around the world, are organized into six major sections. Numerous perspectives are presented, but all attest to the social control function that media perform for their nations.

Global Media Go to War: Role of News and Entertainment Media During the 2003 Iraq War

What If You Could Interview the Greatest Minds in the History of Communication? 
You can, thanks to the authors of this book, who have used their imaginations to help others learn about the important contributions that Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Dewey and others have made to the history of the press and communication. 
"This book is intended for general readers and university students who, while having an interest in philosophy, don’t want too much of it," the authors write in the preface to this highly readable book. "Especially it is aimed at journalism and communication students—and by extension to practicing mass communicators—who are tired of wading through gray fields of type and esoteric language to get at the essence of the ideas of great thinkers."

Media Musings: Interviews with Great Thinkers

John C. Merrill

Philosophy

Harriett Holmes was 15 and pregnant when in 1837 she boarded a Kentucky shantyboat that would become her home for the next decade. Life was difficult for many people during the 1800s, but it was especially so for Harriett’s family, because they were Melungeons, a mixed race with low social status. The Drifters follows Harriett and her family through the Trail of Tears, the Civil War and Texas cattle drives. Can a slave help Harriett and her family find solace, redemption and grace through God? This book explores that and other themes in a compelling story about a forgotten ethnic group in American history.

The Drifters: A Christian Historical Novel About the Melungeon Shanty Boat People

Literature & Fiction

Shook, Tonya Holmes

Genre Fiction

Many books have been written about Billy the Kid’s life after he fought in the Lincoln County Wars and became an outlaw. But until now few have chronicled his early years. The Kid is a historically accurate novel that examines some of the factors influencing Billy’s decision to become an outlaw. The book follows the Kid from birth through his involvement in the Lincoln County Wars, including stories of the first man he killed in a knife fight, his escapades in Arizona, and his captures and escapes from the law.

The Kid: A Novel About Billy The Kid's Early Years

Goetz, Ronald E.

Kimo knew that touching a village chief was a crime punishable by death—in fact, a violator could be beheaded or thrown into the boiling lavas of Mauna Lea. So when he accidentally ran into and knocked over his village chief, Kimo dove off a cliff top into the ocean and escaped to the City of Refuge on the Island of Hawaii. Will he ever be able to return to his village? Will he ever see his family and friends again? Kimo’s Escape is the first installment in a series of books that tells the story of one boy who conquers his fear and learns to believe in himself. A great read for the young person in the household.

Kimo's Escape: The Story of a Hawaiian Boy Who Learns to Believe in Himself

Dan Robison

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Global Media News Reader

Global Media News Reader

The Media Essays: From Local to Global

Learning to Hate Americans: How U.S. Media Shape Negative Attitudes Among Teenagers in Twelve Countries

China Girl: One Man's Adoption Story

Global Media Go to War: Role of News and Entertainment Media During the 2003 Iraq War

Media Musings: Interviews with Great Thinkers

The Drifters: A Christian Historical Novel About the Melungeon Shanty Boat People

The Kid: A Novel About Billy The Kid's Early Years

Kimo's Escape: The Story of a Hawaiian Boy Who Learns to Believe in Himself